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Fish-Explaining 

Fish-Explaining
(Verb)

1.
Speaking quickly and without articulation and with great enthusiasm.
2.
Speaking to someone in a language they do not understand- with great enthusiasm.
3.
Enthusiastically speaking without truly communicating anything, oftentimes in reference to a political speech.
1.

After Mitt Romney’s televised speech I couldn’t help but feel that the whole thing had been little more than Fish-Explaining. There had been a lot of enthusiastic buzz-words but little had been actually communicated.

2.
My mother-in-law forgot for the moment that I did not speak any Turkish. After she finished excitedly saying whatever it was she was saying I could only ask her what all her fish-explaining had been about.

3.
The baby was incapable of speaking English but that didn’t stop him from enthusiastically telling anyone who would listen about the fish he was pointing at when visiting the New England Aquarium. I smiled at his gibbering antics- this was true fish-explaining.
Fish-Explaining by turtle poison September 15, 2012

Explainify

To make clearer or more lucid. A cross between "Explain" and "Clarify"
Mr.president, could you please explainify the tax-cut thingy?
Explainify by Lord Nym August 23, 2003

Explanimation 

The practice of using excessive hand or arm gestures and facial expressions when explaining something to someone
Tom was very excited about the school trip to the zoo, so, when he saw Jessi he gave her a full explanimation of the day's activities
Explanimation by GeeTwo February 26, 2010

Explaining Trey 

The account on twitter that decifers all of UTDTrey's tweets for clout and fame.
Explaining Trey: "Here we can see Treydolo laughing at CFCDUbois, because he believes that Mason Greenwood is ass cheeks."
Explaining Trey by Generational Zee November 19, 2020

Explainate 

To give an intoxicated explanation, typically one that is very drawn out, frequently goes off topic, and in the end does even make sense to personal explainating
She just doesn't get it... I tried to explainate it to her, but she just doesn't get it
Explainate by NachoFingLibre December 21, 2010

explaining to a woman 

Something men simply cannot do, ever.
"I tried explaining to a woman that her bag was open but she told me to shut the fuck up and keep walking the other way"
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She brought home alot of stuff and took it to the bathroom. She must be taking a witch bath.
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That chick doesn't write often but when she does, its for Kinktober.
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a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
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person2: ya he was a proper lad
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sexspan by Dr Kat April 21, 2022
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You didn't get any napkins with your takeout pork fried rice? Womp womp.
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Wife’s boyfriend: You have 5 more minutes
Me: Poggers!
Poggers by Just_Charles April 14, 2020
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